Trivia 2025 (miscellaneous news)

[Dan]

Various charter flights arriving today at BRU airport from Spain and France, all arriving between 1400 and 1600. In total about 8 coming from TLS,BOD/RNS,NTE,MRS/LYS, VLC,ALC,MAD and SVQ.
Operated by different airliners : Tui, Enter air, Air horizont, Smartwings, Volotea and Corendon.
Anyone knows reason for these flights?

My best guess: Winter Wonders and Christmas Market 2025
https://www.brussels.be/winter-wonders

Might well be.
Was in Bruges myself yesterday and never seen it so crowded. Probably the same scenes in Brussels and other cities.
Thanks for the info

[Homo Aeroportus]

"Room for improvement" in the Schengen Entry-Exit System says ACI Europe.

Brussels, 18 December 2025: ACI EUROPE yesterday called upon the European Commission, eu-LISA, Frontex and Schengen Member States to urgently address the mounting operational issues with the implementation of the Schengen Entry-Exit System (EES), which started on 12 October 2025.
The progressive scaling-up of the registration and capture of biometric data from third country nationals entering the Schengen area has resulted in border control processing times at airports increasing by up to 70%, with waiting times of up to 3 hours at peak traffic periods. This is severely impacting the passenger experience — with airports in France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Portugal and Spain especially impacted.

https://www.aci-europe.org/media-room/5 ... ngers.html

H.A.